Richard Dawkins sums it up for me:
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings."

This also shows us that we do not need a God to give our lives meaning.

if there is a creation there must be a creator therefore god is needed to give our lives meaning

Why? Do we need to be a part of God's plan to have meaning in our lives? Look at all the scientist which make our lives better and more meaningfull by helping us understand the world around us. Why accept God when there is no proof? "Man is a rational animal". Reason would tell you that there is no logic behind believeing in God. Reason and curiosity are what give our lives meaning. By believeing in God you are basically throwing both of those 'gifts' out the window.

There is no reason why everything created needs a creator (as science has proved).

No offence guys, but I don't think this statement has anything to do with God, but since that’s the direction you’ve taken...

Everyone’s life has meaning whether they make a major impact on the entire world or they simply touch the lives of close family and friends. An unexamined life is not wasted. No life is wasted. Everyone was put on this Earth to learn something.

And Le-Magnifique you should read chapter 94 of Angels & Demons if you haven't already. It talks about the importance of science in this day and age but also about the need for spiritual guidance and meaning. There are a lot of non-believers in the world and I'm not trying to preach or anything but I do think that everyone needs to have some kind of spiritual connection to the world. Whether you believe in God or a stone is up to you.

And scientists don’t always make our lives better. They may save some but they also destroy others. Look at all the nuclear and chemical weapons that have been created; you cannot honestly say that those are for the good of the world and the people in it. And science doesn’t give lives meaning; it doesn’t give us answers as to why we were put on this Earth or the value of life. Science has a very clinical and sterile way of looking at things and forgets the beauty in everyday occurrences. After all, you don’t need to know why the sun casts different colours of light into the sky as the Earth rotates around it to enjoy a beautiful sunset. Sometimes there is more beauty in the unknown and the mysterious than in the over-analyzed.

As for the proof comment – why do you need hard evidence to know that there is a God? I’m not saying there is, I’m just asking why you can’t simply believe that there are things that cannot or should not be explained. Take the air for example, you don’t see it but you know it’s there, all around you keeping you alive, and sometimes you feel it when there’s a strong enough breeze or wind. That’s what faith is to people, it gives them hope when they don’t see the answers. And nobody said that you have to give up reason and curiosity and become an ignorant fool to have faith. There can be a balance if you choose to have one.

I don’t really understand what you are saying when you say that “there is no reason why everything created needs a creator”; everything created comes from something does it not?

What a sad world we must live in if we truly are alone.



(OMG!! I write too much… sorry!)

life is a wonderful thing, some ppl r born in places they dont want 2 be or with ppl they dont like, it's just the obstacles of life. in the end life is really worth liveing

In examining life, we instantly make it abstract, and in fact, we remove ourselves from it. Live subjectively, not objectively.
Of course, a little examination is necessary if you, say, become a heroine addict.